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DispatchSome people thought Columbus police overreacted when they used pepper spray in January to disperse fans on High Street who were celebrating Ohio State University’s national championship football win over the University of Oregon.
The suspect wriggled out of his seat belt and set the back seat of the cruiser on fire. Police were taking him to jail for violating a protection order, and he wasn’t going easily. He spat at a medic trying to help him. Later, he began kicking the door of another cruiser, and Sharon Township Police Officer Brandon Hoge confronted him. “My emotions got the best of me. I punched him once, and that was the end of it,” Hoge recalled recently. “I don’t even remember doing it.”